Re: my garden here in Nebraska
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 20:44:08 +0100 (BST) Allan Day wrote:
> My main problem with good compost is to get enough for everything that
> would benefit from it. At the moment my main problem is to transform
> over an acre of clay to something workable and I can't afford to put all
> of it in one trench. Help may be at hand, as the local council recycle
> garden waste and they have dropped the price of their product to a point
> that large loads are affordable, as long as we have the effort to
> collect it.
>
Allan,
Have you tried growing green manure crops like fall rye, oats, crimson
clover etc to help incoporate organic matter into your soil? Compost is
pretty expensive on the scale you're growing on.
Are you growing on a full field scale or on beds?
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